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The Pope's elephant

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302 pages 1997

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A view of early modern Europe around 1514 and the inner workings of the Vatican in Rome as they related to Pope Leo X, the pleasure-loving pontiff whose court was famous for its excess, frivolity, and impropriety, as well as for its white elephant, Hanno.

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